diff -r bc72e21f9dc8 -r 8b90e2966219 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sat Feb 06 11:27:22 2010 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Sat Feb 06 11:28:03 2010 +0100
@@ -3492,7 +3492,7 @@
         (heads,
          [('r', 'rev', '', _('show only heads which are descendants of REV')),
           ('a', 'active', False,
-           _('show only the active branch heads from open branches')),
+           _('show active branchheads only [DEPRECATED]')),
           ('c', 'closed', False,
            _('show normal and closed branch heads')),
          ] + templateopts,